Optical Imaging and Spectroscopic Characterization of Self-Assembled Environmental Adsorbates on Graphene

Gallagher, Patrick; Li, Yilei; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Heinz, Tony F.; Goldhaber-Gordon, David

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00348

Title: Optical Imaging and Spectroscopic Characterization of Self-Assembled Environmental Adsorbates on Graphene

Journal Article · Wed Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nano Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00348· OSTI ID:1457109

^[1]; Li, Yilei ^[2];

^[3]; Taniguchi, Takashi ^[3];

^[2]; Goldhaber-Gordon, David ^[1]

Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba (Japan)

Topographic studies using scanning probes have found that graphene surfaces are often covered by micron-scale domains of periodic stripes with a 4 nm pitch. These stripes have been variously interpreted as structural ripples or as self-assembled adsorbates. We show that the stripe domains are optically anisotropic by imaging them using a polarization-contrast technique. Optical spectra between 1.1 and 2.8 eV reveal that the anisotropy in the in-plane dielectric function is predominantly real, reaching 0.6 for an assumed layer thickness of 0.3 nm. Furthermore, the spectra are incompatible with a rippled graphene sheet but would be quantitatively explained by the self-assembly of chainlike organic molecules into nanoscale stripes.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1457109

Journal Information:: Nano Letters, Vol. 18, Issue 4; ISSN 1530-6984

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